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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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The occurrence of pain in the hip can be due to both heavy physical exertion, and with their complete absence. Often they are seen immediately after lifting from the bed, can be of a permanent nature. Also, they can be accompanied by a feeling of stiffness, limitation and instability in the movements. The pains in the thigh are both chronic, lasting for many months, and sometimes years, and acute short-lived.
[Causes of hip pain
It can occur both in the groin, at the junction of the lower abdomen and upper thigh, and in the lumbar spine. In some cases, pain may not appear in the hip itself, but only in its muscular part. To the occurrence of pressing pain leads to irritation of the mucosa of the thigh bag. In the least part of cases, pain in the hip can cause some infectious diseases or tumors. What diseases can cause pain in the thigh? First, as statistics show, the most common cause of pain in the hip is the wear of the hip joint. Or rather, not the joint itself, but the cartilage-pads that are in it, and with complete wear, it results directly in rubbing the bones against the bone, which causes very severe pain. Such wear of the cartilage caused the name of the disease - coxarthrosis, that is arthrosis of the hip joint. The greatest risk of disease of such a feline falls on the age of 50 to 60 years, but the exception can serve and cases in 20-30 years. Pain can change its intensity with changing temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity.
Causes of hip pain can be both natural and unpredictable, such as injuries or accidents, birth defects in the legs, or diseases associated with metabolic disorders. To pain in the thigh also in some cases results in a so-called systemic arthritis, in which the inflammation is localized in several joints.
Rheumatic processes or chronic arthritis often cause pain. And we know such kinds of rheumatic diseases as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, migrating polyarthritis or rheumatism.
No less often than the previous factors, pain in the thigh and buttocks can cause osteoarthritis and osteochondrosis of the sacral and lumbar spine, and a little less often the inflammation of the sacroiliac joints. The spread of pain in such cases can be traced along the back of the thigh and the outer surface of the buttock.
One of the reasons for the pain of a traumatic nature is the damage to the ligaments and muscles in the region of the hip joint.
The most dangerous causes of thigh and gluteal pain are cardiovascular diseases, severe infections and neoplasms.
Hip pain in children can be caused by such factors and diseases as:
- Osteochondropathy of the epiphysis (head) of the femur;
- Fractures of the neck of the femur;
- Epiphysis of the head of the femur;
- Congenital hip dislocation and hip dysplasia.
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